It is a huge opportunity not just for me but also for every Filipino filmmaker to continue creating quality films that can be shown to the world and that every Filipino can be proud of.” RC Delos Reyes, director of “Love the Way U Lie” said, “It is an honor having our film be included as a Netflix Original and be shown across Asia. This exciting new lineup cuts across multiple genres has something for everyone to absolutely enjoy. Staying true to their commitment to bring more Filipino content to the service, Netflix is announcing new films from Viva Communications, Regal Films, TBA Studios, The IdeaFirst Company, and CleverMinds. Kung Paano Siya Nawala is now streaming on Netflix.Netflix is back with 15 Filipino films coming on to the service starting this August, including Netflix Original “Love the Way U Lie.” It only requires us to think ahead and keep moving forward. But it is a fact that challenges in life are in itself opportunities for us to be better, pushing our limits to what we never thought were possible. Sometimes challenges in life push us to retreat within ourselves, taking comfort in the familiar sadness it brings. Lio’s character development feels all too real-instead of confronting his inner demons head on, he chooses to dwell in his misery, feeling that the safest option is to close himself off from others.
Love is not the perfect solution for everything it is only when you have learned to dig deeper within yourself that everything will start to make sense. It isn’t simply about seeing the best in each other, but also learning to live with the fact that the other is not as perfect as you make them out to be. I admire how director Joel Ruiz isn’t afraid of showing the imperfections of a romantic relationship. JM De Guzman plays Lio, a call center agent with face blindness Tension arises once they both notice how different they are: Lio desperately wants to remember, while Shana chooses to forget. Beyond Shana’s lighthearted demeanor lies a dark past that continues to weigh heavily on her what Lio failed to realize was that like him, there were some things that she would rather forget. Somehow, these two lovers found the answer in each other.īut the more they get involved in each other’s world, the more questions arise in Lio’s head. But later, we learn that she has a dark past from which she wanted to move on.
At first glance, she appears to be the stereotypical “manic pixie dream girl”, a free spirit who simply helps Lio come out of his shell with her ebullient personality. Things took a turn as soon as he meets Shana. Thus, we begin to understand his caution when meeting strangers and acquaintances. Film viewers themselves experience this as the familiar characters that surround Lio’s life sometimes appear as entirely different persons as a result, Lio is often met with either hostility or ridicule. The cinematography and editing created a somber mood, as if Lio was already used to living in his misery soon we discover why-he struggles to recognize supposedly familiar faces.
We traverse the narrative through Lio’s eyes as we are introduced immediately to the world he lives in: he works as a call center agent at a small organization and comes home to his family, composed of his mother and stubborn younger sister. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the film offered something more: a complex and intimate story with surprising depth that never lost its grip on reality despite its unique premise. At first glance, the premise seems promising, but despite this, I was expecting to see a conventional love story where romance would be the cure-all for Lio’s face blindness-in short, I was expecting to see a predictable romantic plot. That is, until he meets and falls in love with Shana, a beautiful free spirit who changes his life. Such is the dilemma of our protagonist Lio, who struggles with recognizing faces due to a cognitive disorder called face blindness. Meeting new people is easy but committing them to memory may prove to be more challenging, especially if they have caused you pain in the past. “Yung iba nadaanan ko lang, yung iba, dumaan sandali ,” Shana (Rhian Ramos) remarks, as Lio (JM De Guzman) admires the sea of photographs on her wall.